27732 Changed the sort order of restore points to descending order by date.

9.5.4
22 March 2017

Hyper-V Granular Restore Console

27447 Fixed a problem introduced in 9.5.3 that was producing backups that did not show up in the "Files inside Hyper-V Guests" or "Exchange Granular Restore" restore options, even though the data was backed up correctly. (GMC_BA-1520, GMC_BA-1260)

27186 Added a warning for the impending deprecation of Exchange Mailbox Protection feature in BackupAssist v10, with a listing of the affected jobs.

RecoverAssist

27136 Some recent updates for Windows 7 (KB3212646), Windows 10 (KB3205383), 2012 (KB3205409), 2012R2 (KB3205401) and 2016 have resulted in RecoverAssist media failing to boot. This release includes a new version of RecoverAssist that allows RecoverAssist media to boot successfully after these Windows updates. Also fixed the Error 0xc0000034 that could occur when trying to start 32-bit applications on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016

27168 Fixed an issue where some external hard drives, including Seagate drives, identified themselves as SCSI rather than USBSTOR, and were therefore not identified as a possible RecoverAssist destination. (GMC_BA-1502)

User Interface

21805 Addressed an error pop-up that some users were experiencing when exiting the BackupAssist console.

File Protection (Rsync)

27038 Fixed an issue where the Rsync restore process failed if there was a round bracket - '(' - character in any selected directories or file names. (GMC_BA-1223)

26021 Applied a fix to improve the rendering of German language characters. (GMC_BA-1211)

Restore Console

26500 Fixed incorrect (extra) drive listings that could appear when making a backup folder selection.

UI

25964 Support email addresses now support more than 3 characters for top-level domains.

25432 When you select a backup scheme, there is now an indication of the space required by backups in the scheme.

26304 Renamed the "Feedback and Support..." option under the Help menu to "Contact Support..."

9.5.0r1
9 November 2016

BackupAssist

26289 Fixed a bug that caused "Unauthorized" errors that could break MultiSite Manager's connectivity after upgrading to BackupAssist 9.4.3/9.5.0. Upgrading to 9.5.0r1 will also fix broken "Unauthorized" connections within a MultiSite Manager site.

26259 Fixed a bug that could cause MultiSite Manager's remote session connections to BackupAssist installations to fail. This fix requires updates to both MultiSite Manager and the BackupAssist Site Controller.

9.5.0
27 October 2016

NEW : Windows Server 2016 support

This feature release adds support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016.
This applies to all previously supported BackupAssist, MultiSite Manager and Windows Server features, with the exception of Cluster Shared Volume (CSV), which is not yet supported.

Backup Verification

26163 Fixed an error in the Backup Verification of Hyper-V guests in the Job Report. (GMC_BA-1474, GMC_BA-1483)

A restore Search option has been added to BackupAssist. This new feature allows you to search multiple backups to locate the required file or files. This search feature is available under the Local and Network Files restore option.

24735 Fixed a File Protection problem that caused some Exchange database files to not always back up. (GMC_BA-1156)

24736 Fixed a deduplication problem that was occurring when files were backed up or restored from a deduplicated volume, showing 0 file size at the backup destination. (GMC_BA-1136, GMC_BA-1155, GMC_BA-1164)

Restore Console

23966 Fixed a bug that prevented the restore of files/folders that the current user did not originally have privileges for. (GMC_BA-1108)

Hyper-V

23677 Improved the remote installation error messages.

RecoverAssist

23426 Fixed an exception that could occur with the RecoverAssist builder

UI

24379 MultiSite Manager's Installations menu will now be disabled if the current site's Site Controller is not licensed.

24196 Fixed a bug preventing backup VHDs from being dismounted after verification when quick catalog is enabled or forced on due to an underlying issue (GMC_BA-1125, GMC_BA-1126, GMC_BA-1127, GMC_BA-1129)

Exchange Mailbox Add-on

24338 Fixed an exception in the UI and job executions for migrated legacy Exchange jobs, incidentally introduced in 9.2.1

File Protection (Rsync)

18411 Fixed a problem that prevented rsync backups from seeding before 6am.

Image Catalog

24362 Fix full catalog building in some installations, caused by faulty loading of 64bit version of NTFSTraverser.dll

9.2.1
28 January 2016

Data Container

24001 BackupAssist can now handle a verification error when the temporary directory is not available.

Fix exception that occurs when attempting to edit SQL Server Protection and Exchange Mailbox Protection jobs in the BackupAssist console in v9.1.0

File Archiving & File Protection

Fix an issue introduced in v9.1.0 that prevents running consecutive incremental File Archiving backups. This issue also could affect the catalogs for some File Protection backups, which would mean that restore of some files may require manual handling.

9.1.0
18 November 2015

NEW : Windows 10 support

BackupAssist fully supports Microsoft Windows 10

Updated Hyper-V tab

The Hyper-V tab is now the sole interface for managing Rapidly Recovered VMs. The tab includes a new Discard Rapid VM button in addition to the pre-existing Full VM Recovery button.

Support for multiple Rapidly Recovered VMs

BackupAssist v9.1.0 allows you to rapidly recover more than one VM at a time.

Data Container

23753 Fixed important issues occurring when Hyper-V or Exchange verification is enabled for Data Container backups. The backup could be written to a temp folder and possibly result in data being written to the wrong location and then being lost (GMC_BA-1375, GMC_BA-1377)

File Protection

23023 Further performance improvements in File Protection.

Hyper-V

23657 Fixed an issue for some non-English Windows Server O/S where the new Hyper-V Tab in BackupAssist v9 displays a blank screen without listing the guests (GMC_BA-1361)

Rapid VM Recovery

23665 Fixed an issue seen on server 2008 R2 for some Rapid VM Recovery guests, where they cannot be started and Hyper-V Manager shows "could not initialize" in the error message

23579 Fixed a Rapid VM Recovery failure caused by a lack of privileges to access files inside the backup.

Reports/Notifications

22384 Fixed the restore section of the backup report to correctly describe the restore options available for Exchange

Restore Console

22107 Allow restores of NTFS security attributes to be turned off when restoring to specific location.

22470 Fix some cases where %VARIABLE% references aren't substituted in the new Discover Backups popup

23204 Fixed unhandled exceptions that occur when preparing media for some backup jobs created with previous versions of BackupAssist.

File Protection (Rsync)

23424 Resolved BackupAssist Rsync authentication failures that occur after firmware and software updates to Rsync servers and NAS devices that included an update to OpenSSH 7.0. Re-run "Register with server" for all jobs to take advantage of the improved OpenSSH 7.0 security.

Hyper-V

23316 Fixed a rare bug that prevented some Hyper-V backups from being available using the Hyper-V restore and recover tools. This fix only applies to new backups.

Restore Console

23346 Fixed an issue that prevented the Integrated Restore Console from restoring from backups that include network share selections.

9.0.0
30 September 2015

NEW: Hyper-V tab for servers that have the Hyper-V role installed. At a glance, the Hyper-V tab will show you what guests are active, what guests are being backed up and when the last successful backup ran. You can also begin a Hyper-V granular restore or a guest recovery.

NEW: Rapid VM Recovery allows you to spin up a single guest from its backup destination to keep critical systems online. This interim solution takes only seconds and provides business continuity until a Full VM Recovery can be performed.

NEW: Bootable Backup Media allows you to recover an entire environment from a backup media device. When a bare-metal image backup is stored on an external USB hard disk, you can directly boot into a RecoverAssist environment without the need for a separate recovery disk.

NEW: Full VM Recovery provides a dedicated recovery process to fully recover a guest back to the same host or another host. This new feature sits in the Recovery tab alongside the Rapid VM feature to provide a full set of Hyper-V guest recovery features.

NEW: Improved performance for faster backups. System Protection backups are up to 30% faster and File Protection backups are up to 40% faster (depending on your replication options and backup destination you use).

NEW: Integrated Restore Console for a simpler and more consistent restore experience. You can now locate backups within the BackupAssist user interface, meaning less clicks, and use a customizable filter to specify a date range for the backups that you want to display.

NEW: Streamlined Hyper-V restores. All Hyper-V restores can be performed using the Integrated Restore Console, meaning you do not need to use different tools to restore Hyper-V host files or perform Hyper-V Granular Restores.

NEW: VHDX Data containers for Windows Server 2012 R1/R2. This means Data Containers on Windows 2012 R1/R2 servers can support Data Containers of up to 64 TB in size.

NEW: On-Demand Analytics allows you to check your backup destination when you create a new backup job. From checking that you have the required permissions for a NAS destination to test mounting a Data Container, On-Demand Analysis will help ensure that you backups run smoothly.

NEW: Discover backups is a new feature in the BackupAssist Restore tab that allows you to locate and use backups created by other systems and backups made by jobs that have been deleted.